Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright battle against the now-shuttered AI legal research company ROSS Intelligence,  ROSS says it will seek review in the Supreme Court. Yar Chaikovsky, partner at White & Case, issued a statement on behalf of ROSS disagreeing with the ruling and promising…
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Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.”Saunders made the comments during a media briefing on the last day of Relativity…
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Key points:

  • Study of roughly 37,000 U.S. lawyers finds 47.5% screen high for work-related burnout; 41.1% said legal profession has been detrimental to their mental health
  • Many lawyers reported experiencing depression (21.6%), anxiety (20.4%), stress (18.9%), hazardous drinking (42%), and work-life conflict (35.9%)
  • Respondents call for profession to do more, saying barriers like confidentiality concerns (53.3%) and

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The Prudent AI Series: A Field Guide for the Next Era of Enterprise StrategyRecently, I completed a ten-part series on AI strategy and operations on this blog about Prudent AI. It grew out of a simple observation: most corporate conversations about artificial intelligence are trapped in a false binary.On one side, vendor hype insists you must automate everything by…
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Lawyers today expect the freedom to work from anywhere, access information instantly, collaborate seamlessly and take advantage of AI-powered tools that help them work faster and smarter. For the security […]
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Founded by Leonardo Lupiano and Rhet Porter, Notorio is targeting a gap in the legal tech market with a platform that helps founders organise and manage their company’s legal infrastructure. […]
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The Fourth Circuit’s September 29, 2026 disposition in docket no. 25-4182 is expressly labeled a nonprecedential opinion, which is itself the most important takeaway for lawyers evaluating its broader impact. While the court resolved the appeal before it, the designation means the decision does not bind future Fourth Circuit panels in the same way a published opinion would. For practitioners,…
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We speak with Cambridge University Press GC Catie Sheret and Weightmans partner and former CTO Stuart Whittle – see video interview below One of the refreshing things about Beacon Collective’s […]
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Wim Dejonghe, former global senior partner of Allen & Overy, has teamed up with the technology entrepreneurs behind Belgium HR-tech scaleup Mbrella and a former Freshfields lawyer to co-found Falcon, an AI-native […]
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